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37-year-old mother, Bowk Lung (pictured above), moved to Robert Camp for displaced people in Bhamo Township in Myanmar’s northern Kachin State five years ago after renewed fighting near her home village. In addition to her own two children, she took responsibility for her nephews whose parents...

Some 134 cases of suspected Acute Jaundice Syndrome (AJS) have been reported since May 2016 in Sortony, North Darfur. AJS is an epidemic-prone, waterborne disease with a faecal-oral route of transmission through contaminated water, and it can be a symptom of different epidemic-prone diseases including...

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O’Brien, concluded his three-day mission to South Sudan today, calling for all parties to uphold their responsibilities to protect civilians, amidst fresh fighting that has displaced tens of...

For over a year, Madagascar has been hard-hit by a crippling drought, related to one of the most powerful El Niño phenomena on record. The drought has hit the already arid region of Grand Sud hardest. Home to 1.8 million people, infant mortality in Grand Sud is now 47 per cent higher here than the...

USG/ERC O'Brien's Statement to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad Basin
Mr. President,
Thank you for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in the Lake Chad Basin. And may I thank my colleague, Under-Secretary-General...